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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    An Olive Oil Press
    Hubert Robert. An Olive Oil Press, c. 1759. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002336

    An Olive Oil Press

    by Hubert Robert

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    François Renaud, Paris [Lugt suppl. 1042]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

    Exhibition history

    Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors," November 9, 1978-January 21, 1979, pp. 34-35, cat. 4 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, September-October 1987 (Installation). Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century" February 27-May 21, 2000, cat. 394; traveled to Houston, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, June 17-September 17, 2000. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 102-103, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Hubert Robert", June 26 - October 2, 2016, pp. 93, 201, cat. 6 (ill.), cat. by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Yuriko Jackall, et. al.

    Publications

    "Recent Acquisitions," Art Quarterly, 27 (1964), p. 218. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E9. Patrick-André Guerretta, Pierre Louis de la Rive (1753-1817): Vie et Oeuvre Peint (Geneva, 2002).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Hubert Robert / French, 1733-1808
    Date
    c. 1759
    Medium
    Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
    Dimensions
    28.9 × 36.6 cm (11 7/16 × 14 7/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
    Accession no.
    1963.810

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